Critics assailed earlier warnings as having been written by people who in, in some way, are biased in favor of the traditional mutual fund industry. But now several warnings are coming back-to-back-to-back that can't be ignored.

All eyes are on corporate earnings this week as 20 percent of all U.S. publicly traded companies report quarterly results. Bespoke Investment Group co-founder Paul Hickey looked at 2,240 stocks and found just nine stocks that have gone up every time earnings day has rolled around.

The mining industry has been caught by natural disasters in the Pacific region, an intense mergers and acquisitions environment and emerging countries eyeing to get a hold on commodities resources, Evy Hambro, MD and CIO of the natural resources team at BlackRock told CNBC.

Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero left the Chinese capital last week convinced he had secured the promise of billions of dollars of investment in Spain’s struggling savings banks, the FT reports.